India, Jan. 31 -- The Indian President's Office on Friday criticised Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi's 'poor thing' remark against Droupadi Murmu and said it 'hurt the dignity' of the high office.

"While reacting to the media on the Hon'ble President's Address to the Parliament, some prominent leaders of the Congress party have made comments that clearly hurt the dignity of the high office, and therefore are unacceptable. These leaders have said that the President was getting very tired by the end and she could hardly speak," the Rashtraparti Bhavan said in a statement.

"The President's office believes it might be the case that these leaders have not acquainted themselves with the idiom and discourse in Indian lang...